To:A. I. SVIDERSKY OR A. D. TSYURUPA

Written:Written on June 23, 1919Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIV.

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ToSvidersky (or Tsyurupa): You must seize at it with
both hands. Send the food army there + food supply
workers.

Startan agitation among the starving workers: to the
Belaya for 5 million poods. Reply whatyou are
doing.[1]

[1]OnJune 23, 1919, Lenin received a telegram from the River
Transport Administration Committee, reporting the existence of large
stocks of grain on the Belaya River and the need to expedite its
dispatch.

Inreply to Lenin’s inquiry, Svidersky reported that, in order
to expedite grain procurements on the Belaya River and in Ufa
Gubernia in general, M. I. Frumkin, a member of the Board of
the People’s Commissariat for Food, had gone there from Samara,
and that measures would be taken to send food army men to the
Belaya.